Maria Montessori Quotes

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intell...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany l...

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The t...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...

There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two fai...

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this ...

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the end...

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural proce...

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as...

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w...

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in f...

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs...

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the con...

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the soc...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...

What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and sil...

We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a ...

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - se...

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of b...

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary th...

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to he...

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educato...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmat...

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individua...

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human...

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that ...

The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim...

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a f...

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the enti...

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the consciou...

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inaliena...

In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. I...

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...